We tend to think of indie rock as a young person’s game, with each new, trendy subgenre attracting a younger set of crush-worthy wunderkinds. But as the underground continues to age and its icons keep on rocking, it sometimes hits us (as it did watching The Flaming Lips perform last night) that some of our childhood crushes are looking better now than ever. With that in mind, after the jump, we celebrate the sexiest indie rockers of both genres over 40. Add your obvious obsessions and guilty pleasures alike in the comments.
Wayne Coyne, 49
The Flaming Lips frontman is that rare type who actually gets more attractive as he ages (and it just about goes without saying that he’s still making great music, too). Need proof? Check out the adorable but not yet full-on dreamy Coyne in the video for their 1993 alterna-rock hit “She Don’t Use Jelly.” Now watch him bare the full monty in last year’s clip for “Watching the Planets.”
Comments (12)
nice! either indie is the new forty, or forty is the new indie.
stephen malkmus is perhaps too sexy for this list? (he’s 44…and so sexy it hurts)
oh my god, i love bill callahan.
I feel obliged to call for GILLIAN GILBERT, but….
Yes, Thurston is lucky to have Kim. But, to leave Thurston off the list is unthinkable. He comes into the bookstore I work at and that man is Fine.
Stuart Murdock, Thurston Moore, Calvin Johnson and get rid of some of those people who haven’t been on indie labels in a decade.
Jarvis Cocker was hot until his first solo record, sometime 2007. Now he looks like my dad, and it’s icky to fancy my dad. But he is so witty and can still rock that geeky NHS specs so yes, sexy is fair.
Stephen Malkmus (from Pavement and The Jicks)should’ve been on this list…
So, he may not exactly be “indie”, but I think Mike Patton could’ve been on this list.
Neither PJ Harvey (Island) nor Beck (Interscope) are indie artists……
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